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In response to "I'll admit I never used the killfile, but I loved the TT Info script. But you've incorporated them here already, so *shrug*. -- nm" by JaxSean

kilbo also ported that one separately. I might go to some sort of size-based roll at some point, but determining what to measure for the size ...

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Oct 16 '08, 12:39

I dunno. It's annoying to buffer the entire contents of the page just to check the size, and then I'd have to set a flag somewhere - too much room for roll glitches, IMO.

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I think TT just added up the post strings. The filler around the site is static enough that itself adds the randomness to the size -- nm - kilboooo Oct 16, 12:41 5
- The filler around ST changes depending on what domain you choose, so rolling at a fixed number of bytes (31250) wouldn't work -- nm - Beryllium Oct 16, 12:42 4
  - See, it does. If you roll at 31250 of post data, we would see that as a kind of random number because it would be 31250 + filler - kilboooo Oct 16, 12:47 3
    - The google ads don't get counted in the filler size. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 16, 12:52 2
      - What I'm saying is that you don't worry about filler, just the posts. Our browsers will display posts + filler + other - kilboooo Oct 16, 12:56 1
        
        yeah, that might work -- nm - Beryllium Oct 16, 12:58
The fact that the # of posts changes is good enough for me. Then I know there's an update to the board. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 16, 12:40

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